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Brussels, BE

Madrid, Community Of Madrid, ES

Madrid, Community Of Madrid, ES

Madrid, Madrid, ES

Madrid, Madrid, ES

Working on behalf of small businesses, helping them gain access to dilution-free sources of capital. Leading the preparation of SBIR grant applications. Guiding clients through development of technical and commercial strategies to find the overlap between sound business plans, governmental agency priorities and innovative scientific endeavors.

Cambridge, GB

Leading technical consulting and technical delivery of data science and analytics projects for our clients worldwide. From business understanding and use case identification to model deployment, guiding clients’ projects through the complete data mining life cycle. This includes data preparation, model training and evaluation, algorithm deployment and.

Madrid, Community Of Madrid, ES

• Led a Fintech startup's data mining and predictive analytics activities. Responsible for ongoing improvements in areas of credit risk assessment, operational efficiency, user experience and customer conversion..
• Directly responsible for all machine learning and artificial intelligence activities. Includes data preparation, model training and evaluation, algorithm deployment and performance assessment, and ultimately algorithm.
• Managed A/B Testing of process development initiatives. Includes identifying improvement opportunities, setting up test conditions and selecting winners.
• Ran Search, Social Media and SMS marketing efforts in emerging markets. Sets budgets, integrated content provided by local experts, and structured campaigns to maximize client conversions.
• Led creation of compelling data visualizations and dashboards. Provided decision makers with self-serve analytics and data exploration products that were as intuitive as they are insightful.
• Built high performing teams through training, guidance, encouragement, accountability and honest feedback.

San Diego, California, US

• Positioned in the Information Security and Information Management organization, served as an internal consultant to business clients requiring advanced analytics support.
• From business understanding to model deployment, led clients through the complete data mining life cycle.
• Utilized tools that covered the spectrum from open source desktop apps to enterprise grade, with the skill to match business needs to an appropriate solution.
• Co-Founded and co-led the 'Sempra Analytics Center of Excellence', an interdepartmental organization created to foster a community of practice, wherein members shared knowledge, tools and experience to collectively.
• Led the development of a novel Smart Grid technology that enabled detection of plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) charging events through interrogation of smart meter data. Led the subsequent development of a business.
• As an IT Project Lead, was responsible for the implementation of Smart Grid technologies, requiring the coordination of various teams, including Grid Engineering, Network Communications, IT Infrastructure and.

Cambridge, MA, US

• Drug Development
• Evaluated dozens of proteins as potential candidates for oncology related therapeutic intervention through the use of custom microarray expression and Q-PCR analysis.
• Conducted FACS and ELISA based immunoassay of monoclonal antibodies to provide the necessary functional characterization to triage entire libraries of candidate molecules.
• Developed and implemented in vitro cell based assays that drove selection of two lead therapeutic monoclonal antibody candidates.Biomarker Discovery
• Developed both sample-handling and bioinformatic solutions for mass spectrometry based proteomics
• Identified hundreds of biomarker candidates and validated up to ten actionable markers for each of several collaborations.

Salt Lake City, Utah, US

• Designed and built molecular expression systems to support a contract proteomics laboratory’s high throughput yeast two-hybrid platform.
• Exclusively responsible for management of upstream sample handling for a large corporate partner.
• Conducted platform development initiatives that enabled vastly improved coverage of protein interaction data networks delivered to industrial partners.

Mba

M.S., Oncological Sciences

B.A., Chemistry, Biochemistry